Your Biggest Dom3 Battle

[Shovah32]

As the title suggest simply post about your biggest dom3 battle so far.

Mine was playing LA ctis, i was at war with an aggressive mighty jomon and had an e10 bless on my sauros. The battle had(roughly) the following units:

50 Skele-spamming sauros(creating 250 longdead per battle turn) with +5 reinvig
10 Terror Spamming sauros with +5 reinvig
5 Smiting (well 1 did divine blessing) lizard kings
A 30 prot, +2 awe, fear+5, ethereal, lucky cyclops
15 Sages buffing my mages to help them survive
3 Wraithlords (wraith sword, horror helm, boots of quickness, lucky pendant and ring of regen)
A Gift of Reasoned devourer of souls with a lucky pendant and a ring of regen
800 Dispossesed
10 Troop Tartarians
300 Longdead
40 Wights

and on the other side:
A Wyrm with some random magic
A HUGE number of priests and lesser mages
A couple (maybe about 5?) stronger mages with a few trinkets each
Well over 1000 units, including a few hundred archers
A few cheaper summons

In the end i won, with my wraithlords, devourer of souls, longdead and terror casting mages quickly routing one flank while the dispossesed (who actually suffered alot to the arrow fire) and huge number of summoned longdead slowly but surely crushed the enemy lines.
I took fairly heavy casualties from his priests but it was worth it just to see the battle.

[zepath]

Dear god... makes me wish there were sprites for unit corpses as well. That would be an interesting screenshot! Speaking of which, how about a screen of these tremendous armies arrayed against each other?

[Shovah32]

Would love to but unfortunatly i didnt save the turn and ive progressed on from there now.

[Endoperez]

I had an interesting blitz recently. Hunderds of units clashing... 4-5 times? Five turns from Tehblitzzz, with me as Bandar Log, DominionsFan as Jotun, Ianus (a new face) as Ulm and *Orz* as Pangaea. I lost. You'll need the Fourmageddon map to play this one.

As far as game settings, the only strange one was 125% resources instead of 100%.

<font color="blue">EDIT: See attachment</font>

[WraithLord]

For such huge battles screenshots and/or the turn files would be very nice.

[Azhur]

20 knights against my army of 6000 undead. I'll post a screenshot tomorrow.

[Ironhawk]

I think I had two 500 unit armies clash once. But more than that I had a skelly-spam army storm a castle one time and they were unable to take the gate. By the end of the battle the left side of the battlefield was completely filled with skellies. Every square.

[Shovah32]

lol, what sort of tough units/mages were holding them back?

[reverend]

I need to play more.

The largest battle I had so far was some 300 units of Ulm storming a Tien Chi cast defended by about 200 units... Still, pretty impressive, when I compare it to the small armies I used in Dom 2.

[Hadrian_II]

I have a screenshot of an army of ca. 1600 Longdeaths and some PD. It looks quite nice http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[alexti]

Is it about single player games? I'd think that in large MP the big battles would have numbers well in thousands. At least in Dom2 they were. I don't think that numbers in Dom3 will be much different. Essentially the limit was how much troops that can survive FfS,RoS etc you could bring. It wasn't worthwhile to bring more of other troops as only 10-20% of them would ever reach the real battle.

[Endoperez]

WraithLord said:
For such huge battles screenshots and/or the turn files would be very nice.



The turn files ARE attached to my first post... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif I think it took an hour or so before I realized I had forgotten something, though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[HoneyBadger]

I've had a few battles last 75 rounds or more, not sure how many participants, but their must have been a lot and they must have been pretty evenly matched since there wasn't a DM. The AI regularly dumps anywhere from 800-1450 troops on my Niefel giants though. I counter with waves of 60+ skinshifters, which usually manage to eat up their territory, and hold that territory with defense 40-90 until they can't feed/clothe/pay their soldiers.

[Endoperez]

The attacking army will always start routing after turn 50. Manual, page 80. It doesn't mention the defenders routing, though, even though I'm pretty sure they rout 25 or so turns before the last remaining creatures (like 100+ paralyzed Sphinxes with active Soul Vortex or something) are killed off.

[Meglobob]

Here is a fairly big battle 700 units, on turn 30 in a MP game I am playing. With screenshots! Link:-

Post#472960 (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showthreaded.php?Number=472960)

[HoneyBadger]

So it must have been huge to have gone to turn 75, if they all started routing at turn 50. Interesting. Battles definitely take longer in DMs though, I've had one last to round 128.